 | Albert Cohn - Actors - 1865 - 380 pages
...husband's murder." * In Hamlet, Act ii, Sc. 2, Shakespeare alludes to a similar incident, perhaps the same. I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play...the soul, that presently They have proclaim'd their nialefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. Heywood,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 pages
...with words, And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion ! Fie upon't ! foh ! — About, my brain ! I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim' d their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 212 pages
...with words, And fall a cursing, like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon 't ! foh ! About, my brains ! I have heard, That guilty creatures, sitting at a...the scene Been struck so to the soul, that presently through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest,' K. Kichard II., i. 1. 'I will turn thy falsehood... | |
 | Mary Beth Rose - Drama - 1992 - 256 pages
...spectators, he believes, in fact, that plays can elicit self-recognition, confession, even repentance: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (2.2.575-78) Although we should not necessarily assume that the character... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...words, 570 And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion! Fie upon't; foh! About, my brains. Hum ... I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,...Been struck so to the soul, that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions: For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous... | |
 | Lars Engle - Drama - 1993 - 284 pages
...shared economies of moral discourse. —I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play t lave, by the very cunning of the scene. Been struck so to...something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle. (2.2.584) In so doing I lamlet will tent to the quick not only his uncle but also his father's ghost,... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...oblique psychic access. Thus one may by 'indirections find directions out' and thereby gain insight. 'I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions.' (Hamlet II.2.584) Shakespeare's use of the play as metaphor, of the mask and disguise, of 'seeming'... | |
 | Walter Albert Davis - American drama - 1994 - 316 pages
...I. Title. II. Series. PS350.D38 1994 812'.509353—dc20 93-38608 To Chris and Steve in abiding love I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. —Hamlet Il.ii.588-92 A book must be an ice ax to break the sea frozen inside us. Claudius: What do... | |
 | Terrence Ortwein - 1994 - 100 pages
...GUILDENSTERN.) HAMLET. Ay, so, God bye to you. HORATIO (as the silent HAMLET touches his father's throne). I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous... | |
 | John Russell - Drama - 1995 - 260 pages
...he orders his brains about. But now, after a prelimi' nary "Hum," the crucial thought strikes him: I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play...Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions. (II.ii.600-604) Strangely, though, as if he has forgotten that he has... | |
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I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. 
